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News on Japan, Business News, Opinion, Sports, Entertainment and MoreTue, 03 Mar 2015 22:37:52 +0000en-UShourly1‘Frack off’: U.K. energy debate eruptshttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/02/business/frack-off-u-k-energy-debate-erupts/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=frack-off-u-k-energy-debate-erupts
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/02/business/frack-off-u-k-energy-debate-erupts/#commentsWed, 02 Oct 2013 12:48:40 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=462735This might seem a bizarre place for a battle over energy policy in Britain. A quaint village with a single pub, a well-attended tea room and a population of about 2,000, Balcombe has become the focal point of a heated debate over hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, which Prime Minister David Cameron hopes will revolutionize the […]

]]>http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/10/02/business/frack-off-u-k-energy-debate-erupts/feed/0For world, U.S. gun violence is new normhttp://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/18/world/crime-legal-world/for-world-u-s-gun-violence-is-new-norm/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=for-world-u-s-gun-violence-is-new-norm
http://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2013/09/18/world/crime-legal-world/for-world-u-s-gun-violence-is-new-norm/#commentsWed, 18 Sep 2013 12:23:34 +0000http://awsadmin.japantimes.co.jp/?post_type=news&p=456876Jimmy Davis, a 41-year-old London disc jockey, was saddened when he heard about the latest mass shooting in the United States. But like much of the world after the attack Monday at Washington’s Navy Yard, he was no longer shocked. The United States is a place where “buying guns is like buying sweets from a […]